History's Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France) - Image 1

£45.12

Lexington Books History's Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

Name: History's Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)
Brand: Lexington Books
Price: 45.12 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£45 today · previous high £45 · all-time low £45

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 45 days • 45 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 45 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £45 (45 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £45 - £45

Price levels: 1 different prices over 45 days

Description

History's Place explores nostalgia as one of the defining aspects of the relationship between France and North Africa. Dr. Seth Graebner argues that France's most important colony developed a historical consciousness through literature, and that post-colonial writers revised it while retaining its dominant effect. The North African city became a privileged place in the relationship between literacy and historical discourses in the colony. Graebner analyzes the importance of architecture and urbanism as markers of historical development, as the urban fabric and descriptions of it became signs of difference between metropole and colony. Discussing writers as diverse as Bertrand, Randau, and Kateb, this book examines how the changing Algerian city has remained the locus of a debate colored by various sorts of nostalgia. Graebner demonstrates that nostalgia was symptomatic of historical anxiety generated by colonial conditions, but with literary consequences for mainland France as well. History's Place is a comprehensive and valuable addition to the study of French literature and cultural studies. Review Graebner's study is an innovative work, elaborated with a remarkable care for detail that still preserves the sense of an overarching structure of feeling and ideas that adhere to the movement of history. Not the least of its qualities is the clarity of its critical formulations, placed constantly at the service of an impressive breadth of coverage and analytical insight.--Research in African Literatures, Winter 2009 This is a timely and original project on Algerian writing that both illuminates and redefines its object of study. Graebner's interdisciplinary approach to storytelling crosses traditional ethnic, national, and religious boundaries. He successfully brings together the radically different voices of early Algerianists, Albert Camus, Emmanuel Roblès, or Kateb Yacine and Rachid Boudjedra, without artificially reconciliing their points of view.--Mireille Rosello, Universiteit van Amsterdam History's Place is a distinguished, erudite, and convincing study of the crucial role of culture and literature in the articulation of the French-Algerian colonial relationship. Supported by outstanding research and innovative archival work, this book provides a compelling analysis of the ways by which three intellectual communities-Metropolitan French, Algerian French, and Arab/Imazighen-have continuously produced fictions of "Algeria" to support their claims to national identity and difference. Moving from the roman colonial to more recent postcolonial narratives, History's Place forces us to rethink our conceptions of French Algerian literature by insisting on trans-Mediterranean continuities rather than ruptures. As such, it is a wonderful tribute to the vitality and complexity of Francophone intellectual life since the nineteenth century.--Lydie E. Moudileno, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Pennsylvania About the Author Seth Graebner is Assistant Professor of French and of International and Area Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis.

Product Specifications

Brand: Lexington Books
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0739115820
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 25 May 2007
Listed Since: 26 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Lexington Books History's Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954–2012

The Algerian Historical Novel: Linking the Past to the Present and Future: 68 (Francophone Cultures & Literatures)

Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures): 27

Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)

From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012 (Studies in Modern French and Francophone History)

The Algerian War in Film Fifty Years Later, 20042012: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918-1958

L'architecture et l'urbanisme au Maghreb Au XIX-XX siècle. Cas d'Alger (1800-2000)

Algerians Without Borders: The Making of a Global Frontier Society

A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 (History and Society of the Modern Middle East)

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed

Algeria and France: From Colonialism to Cooperation (Routledge Library Editions: North Africa)

The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

Lexington Books - The Algerian War in French-Language Comics

The Algerian War in French/Algerian Writing: Literary Sites of Memory (French and Francophone Studies)

The Franco-Algerian War through a Twenty-First Century Lens: Film and History (War, Culture and Society)

Women and Resistance in the Maghreb: Remembering Kahina (UCLA Center for Middle East Development CMED)

Cinema and the Algerian War of Independence: Culture, Politics, and Society (Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema)

I Die by This Country (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from the French)

The Evolution of Algerian Political Thought: Origins, Colonial Rule and Post Independence

The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity (After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France)

Language Conflict in Algeria: From Colonialism to Post-independence (Multilingual Matters): 154

France, the United States, and the Algerian War

Special Offer (The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama and the Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies)